William Few

William Few (8 June 1748-16 July 1828) was a US Senator from Georgia from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793, preceding James Jackson. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

Biography
William Few was born in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1748 to a poor yeoman farming family, and the family settled in Orange County, North Carolina in 1758. Few's brother was hanged for his part in the War of the Regulation, and Few joined a company of minutemen when the American Revolutionary War broke out. In 1776, he opened a law practice in Georgia, and Few became second-in-command of the Richmond County Regiment in 1779, taking part in skirmishes with the British. At the same time, he was also elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, and he represented Georgia in the Continental Congress in 1780 and from 1782 to 1787. From 1789 to 1793, he was one of Georgia's inaugural US Senators, and he later served as President of the City Bank of New York (now Citigroup) from 1813 to 1817. He died in Fishkill, New York in 1828.